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Welcome. Never having been to New Zealand (although I have been to the old one, Zeeland), I too would like to know to about NZ food, especially indigenous foods as opposed to adapted European or other cuisines. Should you wish and have time to share.

Working lunch. Real aged Spanish Manchego and real Scottish oatcakes. Real good.

Traditional Cumberland sausage is a protected species under British and EU law (Protected Geographical Indication (PGI)). It is made in Cumbria from chopped pork as opposed the more common minced/ground pork. It must be 80%-98% meat and flavoured with both white and black pepper, thyme, sage, mutmeg and cayenne. It is noted for not being separated into links, but comes in long coils and is sold by length. Traditional Cumberland Sausages can be made without these restrictions from almost anything, but cannot use the word 'traditional' or the PGI tag. Cumberland chipolatas is meaningless. Caveat Emptor.

I replenished my wasabi today by purchasing another root / rhizome. With it this time came this oroshigane (おろし金 or 下ろし金 ), also known as oroshiki (下ろし器). It is a metal wasabi grater of the type which have widely replaced the traditional sharkskin variety - same no kawa orishikin (サメの皮おろし金) as shown above. It is a fine grater but still rougher than the sharkskin type. No holes as found in western graters. I'll use both depending on application.

皮蛋瘦肉粥 (pí dàn shòu ròu zhōu), Century Egg and Lean Pork Congee. Industrial strength black Yunnan Coffee.

This joy to behold is my new 30cm cast iron griddle. It came with a pile of tools, all of which I already have and a pair of premature baby-sized heat resistant gloves. Ah well. Happy griddling shall ensue.

Another day, another 6-pack, another ‘gift’. My beer purveyor delivery today came complete with this 俄罗斯风味牛筋肠 (é luó sī fēng wèi niú jīn cháng), Russian-style beef tendon sausage. I don’t know what the Russians are feeding their cattle but the ingredients list suggests they could be wiped out by bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or worse. Ingredients list as translated by my cell phone. Binned. The rats can have it. Them being wiped out suits me just fine.

That doesn't look at all bad for having been served on a plane.

Yes, @KennethTusually gives his full report when he is home and rested.

because you're only searching this topic!

Not my experience. Today, I searched for pomfret and got results going back over 20 years.

Today, I fancied me some tuna to go with my fresh 'real' wasabi, so I searched my food delivery app for 金枪鱼 (jīn qiāng yú) which is the Mandarin for tuna. To my momentary confusion, this image for a whole 'tuna' came up! Clearly, this is no tuna. What it is, is sloppy mislabelling by ignorant, undertrained employees in Walmart. Not the employees' fault. This specimen is the similarly sounding 金鲳鱼 (jīn chāng yú), golden pomfret, a fine fish but not even closely related to tuna. In the end, I bought some donkey leg meat instead, as you do in these circumstances.

Balham market, South London, 1950s. An important market in the day.

As do a number of countries.

Those I've seen contain fluorescent tubes. They are easily replaced and widely available.

Lemon chicken. Not "Chinese Lemon Chicken", a dish which I've never encountered in China - that is American. I marinated a cubed chicken breast in lemon juice and zest, garlic, and chilli for about two hours. This I then stir-fried, adding some Spanish black olives, Shaoxing wine and salt. Finished with some cilantro and culantro to wilt in the residual heat. Served with rice. Normally, I would use dark leg meat, but a breast was what I had.

Maybe someone suggested Lipton's! I don't know what kicked it off. It started in a private tasting room and by the time it became clear what was happening those involved had abandonded any semblance to coherent language and taken instead to grunts and gutteral moans.

I didn't see it being cooked but I'd say the prosciutto was cooked with the pizza but the arugula added afterwards to wilt in the residual heat. As I like it.

Yes. I've seen them here in China, Vietnam and Laos. Quite common. Never used one, though.

This, a table in a long gone tea shop in town, was a dugout canoe with a glass top. Inside was a bizarre collection of cultural revolution (1966-1976) paraphernalia. The whole place was weird and a massive punch-up broke out seconds after I took this photo. I fled. Punch-ups in bars are highly unusual in China, but in tea shops? Never! The place closed a month later.